Author Archives: Autism Mum

So, he did it, Boris has grounded us all as a few just can’t do as they’re told! Hopefully this will work and we can all get back to some kind of normality, until then I get to work from home, I’m so pleased, I’m normally a receptionist part time but as there is lotsContinue reading “Lockdown,working from home and a Birthday!”

It’s the first Monday with no school, I’ve seen lots of parents doing great things with homeschooling and although I’m aware I have to do what L can manage I still feel pressured to ensure the skills he’s learnt don’t disappear, so how much is too much? L doesn’t learn by using worksheets and heContinue reading “Homeschooling a SEN child! And other stuff….”

I won’t try to sugar coat it, this sucks, I miss my mum, she’s 3 miles away, a distance I can cover in 10 minutes but she may as well be on another planet at the moment. I’m really close to my mum, we talk every day and see each other multiple times a week,Continue reading “A different kind of Mother’s Day”

You always hear about these random acts of kindness, but in this current situation faced by so many will we become more kind and generous or less? I put a post up on Facebook asking if anyone was selling a pasta machine so I could make my son his pasta and within minutes my neighbourContinue reading “Random acts of kindness”

Hi, I’m a single autism mum living in England with my 11 soon to be 12 year old son, L, he is officially off school for the foreseeable due to the Coronavirus. L has Autism and is at THAT age, hormones are rife and he has no idea what mood he’s in from minute toContinue reading “Day 1! Coronavirus Isolation as an autism mum”

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